elizabeth8503RN MSN, EMT-B, NP

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    Ever had folks assume you're the Aide not the Nurse????!!!!

    elizabeth8503RN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Let me start off by saying I have been a CNA for 2 years...worked as a LPN for 7 months...and have now been an RN for over 2 years now. A couple of months ago I walked into a nursing home...(I work...
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    How Many Times Did You Apply to Nursing School

    elizabeth8503RN replied to wannabenursi's topic in General Nursing

    I applied once to a community college while I was still in high school...my gpa...like 2.9 when I graduated...had some medical issues...got accepted to the LPN program...I was 17. Had to take one...
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    Loved one soon to be passing

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    She made it to her 94th birthday. The doctors' didn't think that she would. She actually talked today. I'm at work right now...but after work I'm going to try and see her. She has family with her...
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    Migraines and work

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing

    I have also suffered from migranes...at one point they were so bad that I was hospitalized for 4 days....the migrane lasted for a week and a half. I am on topamax also, and have been on for almost...
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    Loved one soon to be passing

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am doing okay....Granny has been telling us...as in the family...for years that she is ready to go. Its not just that Granny will be passing soon....I also other family issues....my parents are...
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    Loved one soon to be passing

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    I just got back from visiting Granny. She doen't seem to be in much pain. Every once in a while she gets figgity and she seems to be in pain but she is given morphine and that seems to help. She is...
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    cholesytectomy during nursing school

    elizabeth8503RN replied to wishNhopeNdreamN's topic in General Nursing

    I was 15 when I had mine.....but I was very very sick before I had it done... I was back in school after a week. I spent that last two days getting caught up with school work....I was in 10th grade...
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    Why Dogs Make the Best Friends

    elizabeth8503RN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Right now I have a calico named Tinkerbell, and a German Shephard, Bandit. Since I was little I have always had some kind of animal, cat, dog, reptile, amphibian, bird, horse, sheep, goats, you name...
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    Non-detectable street drugs?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about the non-detectable street drugs....but where I come from alot of our pot is laced with other stuff....like pcp and barbituates, so that if someone who has only smoked pot, their...
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    Terms we will not admit to using

    elizabeth8503RN replied to gwenith's topic in Nursing Humor

    LIGHTING BUG----- someone who refuses to leave the call light
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    Traveling L&D nurses from Iowa?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to L&Doldtimer's topic in Travel

    I really like working in psych.....I just need to get out of Iowa for a while. The traveling agency that I am looking at deals with Cali, Florida and Texas, and I really want to go to Texas right...
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    Traveling L&D nurses from Iowa?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to L&Doldtimer's topic in Travel

    I am from Iowa, and by the end of this year, beginning of next year I am going to be traveling. I have never traveled yet.....but I have made up my mind that I am going to do this...I am having alot...
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    My LPN license is expiring--how do I put it on an inactive status?

    elizabeth8503RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay heres the situation, and this is probably a dumb question. I have my RN license and I want to keep my LPN license, but how do I put my LPN liscence on an inactive status? Do I contact the BON? If...
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    Would you feel comfortable with putting your loved ones in a nursing home?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to BradleyRN's topic in General Nursing

    It completely depends on the nursing home........... About two years ago my grandmother fell and broke her hip. She had to have a hip replacement. She ended up needing therapy and was not able to go...
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    max hrs worked in a row

    elizabeth8503RN replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

    I was told that it was a double or 16 hours, and at no point in time could we ever work 24 hours in a row. I was also told that a max in a week was 60/week. I could be wrong............If I am...
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    Agencies-are they a rip-off

    elizabeth8503RN replied to 2bNurseguru's topic in General Nursing

    I work full time for an "agency" and I have 3-4 places that I work at alot, and then there are several places that I work at just occasionally, several places that I work at rarely, and then a few...
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    Depression...

    elizabeth8503RN replied to rnmomtobe2010's topic in General Nursing

    No one in my family wants any counseling. I would love to be able to go, but it won't work if my family won't attend. I know that divorces happen. I've accepted the idea of it, its just a hard...
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    Depression...

    elizabeth8503RN replied to rnmomtobe2010's topic in General Nursing

    My life is kinda falling apart. My parents are divorcing after being married for 25 years, together for 27. My dad is going to date someone who is just a few years older than me. I have a sister who...
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    What do young single nurses do on their days off?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to chichimitchi's topic in General Nursing

    I have the same problem. I have NO social life. I just last month turned 23 and since I was 15 I have been going to school and working. When I got done with school I lasted about 6 months before I...
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    Show Me The Moneeeeeey ! !

    elizabeth8503RN replied to aphi~gn's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Iowa also............but I have no intention of moving anytime soon. I work for a staffing company and get paid 22-25 an hour, but it's not for everyone. I have also heard that the Des...
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    Possibility of EMT after nursing??

    elizabeth8503RN replied to sissiesmama's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a rural area in Iowa. Just after I got my RN I joined a volunteer fire/emt ambulance crew. In order to stay envolved with the department I had to become an EMT-B depsite the fact that I...
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    Who attends/attended Indian Hills Communtity College

    elizabeth8503RN replied to S.N. Visit's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I graduated from IHCC in 2005 from the ADN program and then in 2006 for my RN program and got my AA degree. I am 3-4 classes short of getting my BSN from University of Iowa. I thought that the IHCC...
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    Most RN's first borns?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    I am a firstborn of four girls. No ETOH in the family for several generations. No abuse from the parents, but I had a very, and I mean a very difficult sister to live with (the 2nd born, who is 2...
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    Were You a Nursing Assistant

    elizabeth8503RN replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    I was a CNA for 2 1/2 yrs, worked for an LPN for 7 months, and have been an RN for almost 2 years (July 19 it will be 2 yrs). Hopefully here in the next year or so I will have completed my BSN, (I...
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    Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    elizabeth8503RN replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Should've of Said No" by Taylor Swift For several different